Wayne County, IA
The federal environmental record for Wayne County (population 6,557): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
2
TRI facilities
1
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Wayne reported a PFAS detection in the UCMR5 national testing round. Systems serving under 3,300 people were only sampled in part, so absence from this table is not proof of absence in the water.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
2 facilities in Wayne filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 665 lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLENDHOUSE ALLERTON LLC. | ALLERTON | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 660 lb |
| EAST PENN MANUFACTURING CO INC | CORYDON | Lead, Antimony | 5 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 32 tank facilities in Wayne: 16 tanks in service and 76 closed. 12 fuel releases are on record, of which 1 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Wayne as Zone 1, the highest predicted indoor radon levels (over 4 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.
The record for one specific address
County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.
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